Note: This is a guest post from Jennifer A. Marshall, director of the DeVos Center for Religion and Civil Society at The Heritage Foundation. Further biographical information at the end. Many thanks to Ms. Marshall for this excellent piece. * A grease fire has flared up at a comment made by Chick-fil-A President and COO Dan [Read More...]

There’s a saying attributed to John Stott: “When Christ is Lord, nothing is secular.” Or try a slightly different phrase from Madeleine L’Engle: “There is nothing so secular that it cannot be sacred, and that is one of the deepest messages of the Incarnation.” In other words: Everything matters. Everything has spiritual significance when it [Read More...]

One of the gravest dangers of the Budget Control Act passed yesterday is that it could provide Americans with a false sense of security. Washington has finally taken action. The crisis has passed. The sky is brightening, the trees are parting before us and — we’re out of the woods. Right? Alas, but no. Not [Read More...]

I sometimes find Jonah Goldberg over-the-top, but I thought he made an excellent point in his “Goldberg File” today. He told a story of a family on a road-trip. The wife wrote “Help. Please God.” in the dust on the back of the car when they were about to begin a long drive. One of [Read More...]

A recent post, “Is Homosexuality Voluntary?“, asked whether homosexual desires, or sexual desires more generally, can be shifted (or “cultivated”) over time. I received a letter from a good friend, whom I will call JH. After saying some nice complimentary things that needn’t be repeated here, JH wrote: …It seems to me that there are [Read More...]